sugar act
This product—used in baking and drinks—was taxed by the Sugar Act.
sugar
This act taxed printed materials like newspapers and playing cards.
stamp act
The Quartering Act required colonists to provide this to British soldiers.
Answer: What is housing?
The Townshend Acts taxed everyday goods like paint, paper, glass, and this popular drink.
Answer: What is tea?
This 1773 act gave the British East India Company a monopoly on tea.
Answer: What is the Tea Act?
The main reason Britain created the Sugar Act was to raise money after this costly conflict.
French and Indian war
Colonists protested the Stamp Act using the famous phrase:
What is “No taxation without representation”?
Besides housing, colonists had to supply soldiers with food, candles, and these.
Answer: What are supplies?
Colonists responded by refusing to buy British goods, a protest known as a ______.
Answer: What is a boycott?
This famous event involved colonists destroying tea in protest.
Answer: What is the Boston Tea Party?
This was the term for illegally bringing goods into the colonies to avoid taxes.
The Stamp Act required colonists to purchase these small images to prove the tax was paid.
Answer: What are stamps?
Colonists felt this act violated the privacy of their _______.
homes
These acts led Britain to send more of these into colonies, increasing tensions.
Answer: What are British troops/soldiers?
One of the Intolerable Acts closed this important harbor.
Answer: What is Boston Harbor?
The Sugar Act hurt this group of people the most because they depended on sugar for trade.
merchants
This group formed to organize protests and intimidate tax collectors.
Answer: Who are the Sons of Liberty?
This city experienced the most tension because many British soldiers were stationed there.
Answer: What is Boston?
Name two items taxed by the Townshend Acts.
Answer: Accept: tea, glass, paint, lead, paper.
The Intolerable Acts were passed to punish this colony.
Answer: What is Massachusetts?
Name one reason colonists viewed the Sugar Act as unfair.
They had no representation in Parliament / It raised prices / Hurt colonial trade.
Name two items taxed under the Stamp Act.
Answer: Accept: newspapers, legal documents, playing cards, licenses, pamphlets.
Explain why the Quartering Act increased tension between colonists and soldiers.
Answer: Colonists resented feeding/housing soldiers; soldiers enforced unpopular laws; loss of privacy.
Explain why taxes on everyday items angered colonists so deeply.
Answer: They were daily essentials; constant reminder of British control; felt unfair.
Explain how the Intolerable Acts helped unite the colonies.
Answer: Colonies saw Boston’s punishment as a threat to all; led to unity and First Continental Congress.